OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI and Visa are partnering on permissioned AI-agent purchases, signaling payment infrastructure moving toward agentic commerce.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-10/openai-visa-team-up-to-let-ai-agents-make-purchases-online"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260610/i50.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260610/p50#a260610p50" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Paige Smith / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-10/openai-visa-team-up-to-let-ai-agents-make-purchases-online">OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI and Visa Inc. are now allowing artificial-intelligence agents to make purchases online after users give their permission &hellip; </p>